Source Insight

May 10th, 2008

Search wikipedia for code editors and you won’t find Source Insight.
Most people out there have heard of SlickEdit, CodeWarrior, etc. but Source Insight? It’s rare.
It deserves so much more recognition than it gets, however, because it does several key things better than everything else. Unfortunately (for me) it hasn’t kept up over the […]

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Blogging w/ XSLT

March 22nd, 2007

For a while now I’ve been wanting to write something that would take a Microsoft Word document and transform it into post-able html.
Word has better formatting, editing, navigation, undo/re-do, and spell check than any standard blogging product I’ve found.
It took me all of today (oh boy but my XSLT was rusty) but I finally got […]

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Updates

January 24th, 2007

I’ve updated the formatting of a few posts, and fixed the most egregious spelling errors.
Thanks be to the Firefox auto-spell check ( though I honestly think my next mini-project will be an xml transform for Microsoft Word that will create posts straight from properly formatted doc files )
I’ve also added a short new page to […]

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New look

December 11th, 2006

I’ve always been curious about web-development software but I’ve never actually gotten my hands dirty with anything other than HTML or Flash before.
Its of course impossible to have been in software development and not have picked up bits here and there, but I’ve never actually tried to doing anything even moderately interesting web-wise with PHP […]

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In search of blogging software

July 21st, 2006

I’ve been looking at blogging support software a bit this morning; First of all, to keep up with other people’s blogging, ive just installed Sage and LinkChecker. Sage seems pretty good so far, though I wish I could actually see my bookmark folders and sage at the same time.
There’s a couple of more things I […]

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first update

July 20th, 2006

just updated my about page — take a look.
-simon.

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beginnings

July 17th, 2006

just installed wordpress this morning — looks great ( in my opinion )
wish i had more time to play with it but have to head out to a meeting.
near term ionous work:

setup information about the site
add some information about me
begin adding some articles

i figure probably about a month to get the site looking like, and […]

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